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... the meantime, someone inside the Uma Lengge catches the rice bunch and arranges the rice bunch in an orderly manner, up to reaching one thousand bunches of rice. Usually, in each storage unit, they have the so-called ama-ina pare (the father and the mother of the rice)-the first rice bunch from the harvest that should not be consumed and specially hung or put in a particular location (Figure 4). The house owner hoped that the ama-ina pare's presence could safeguard their food supply and bless their children, which are the other rice bunches. ...
